Say goodbye to hold music

Favorite Sometimes, a phone call is the best way to get something done. We call retailers to locate missing packages, utilities to adjust our internet speeds, airlines to change our travel itineraries…the list goes on. But more often than not, we need to wait on hold during these calls—listening closely

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Shared by Google AI Technology September 30, 2020

How The Trevor Project continues to support LGBTQ youth

Favorite This September, National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month feels different. Over the past nine months, LGBTQ youth have experienced unique challenges in relation to COVID-19.The pandemic has amplified existing mental health disparities and created new problems that have impacted the daily lives of many LGBTQ youth.  As the world’s largest

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Shared by Google AI Technology September 30, 2020

KM and Covid – an overview (video)

Favorite  Courtesy of Patrick Lambe, please find below my video related to KM and Covid, presented at the ISKO singapore meeting on KM and the Covid Crisis ISKO SG KM and Covid Event – Nick Milton from Patrick Lambe on Vimeo. View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.

Running on-demand, serverless Apache Spark data processing jobs using Amazon SageMaker managed Spark containers and the Amazon SageMaker SDK

Favorite Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large scale, distributed data processing. Typically, businesses with Spark-based workloads on AWS use their own stack built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or Amazon EMR to run and scale Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other big data

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 30, 2020

How do you know KM is failing?

Favorite How do you know KM is failing in your organisation? This was a question raised yesterday at a workshop I ran a few years back at KM World. FAIL by amboo who? on Flickr Assuming you have introduced KM, embedded it into business processes, and the central KM team

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Shared by Nick Milton September 29, 2020

BERT inference on G4 instances using Apache MXNet and GluonNLP: 1 million requests for 20 cents

Favorite Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) [1] has become one of the most popular models for natural language processing (NLP) applications. BERT can outperform other models in several NLP tasks, including question answering and sentence classification. Training the BERT model on large datasets is expensive and time consuming, and

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 29, 2020

AWS Inferentia is now available in 11 AWS Regions, with best-in-class performance for running object detection models at scale

Favorite AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to four new AWS Regions, bringing the total number of supported Regions to 11: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris), and South America (São Paulo). Amazon EC2

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 29, 2020

Football tracking in the NFL with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite With the 2020 football season kicking off, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is continuing its work with the National Football League (NFL) on several ongoing game-changing initiatives. Specifically, the NFL and AWS are teaming up to develop state-of-the-art cloud technology using machine learning (ML) aimed at aiding the officiating process

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 26, 2020